2016 Books

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, a translation by Anne CarsonDream of the Red Chamber (also titledHónglóu Mèng (紅樓夢)), by Cao XueqinThe Vicar of Wakefield, by GoldsmithThe Cross, by Sigrid UndsetThe Wife, by Sigrid UndsetThe Wreath, by Sigrid UndsetThe Book of Ruth, from the BibleLook Homeward, Angel by Thomas WolfeThe Bell Jar, by Sylvia PlathSelected Poems, by Gwendolyn BrooksHenry IV, Parts 1 and 2 by Shakespeare

2015 Books

Njáls Saga, (part of Sagas of Icelanders)

Bhagavad Gita

The Nature of Things, by Lucretius

The Mansion, Vol. 3 of Snopes Triology, by William Faulkner

The Town, Vol. 2 of Snopes Trilogy, by William Faulkner

The Hamlet, Vol. 1 of Snopes Trilogy, by William Faulkner

King Lear, by Shakespeare

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

Book of Esther, from the Bible

Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Letter from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King

2014 Books

Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Future of an Illusion, by Sigmund Freud
Ulysses, by James Joyce
A Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare
The Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Song of Solomon, from the Bible
Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles

2013 Books

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Medea by Euripides
On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 NightsAs You Like It, by William Shakespeare
Elizabeth Bishop's poetry
Genesis, from the Bible
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf

2012 Books

Gospel of Mark, from the Bible

Epic of Gilgamesh

Anthony & Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

Idylls of the King, Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tao te Ching, Lao-tsu

Symposium, Plato

Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

Catch 22, Joseph Heller

2011 Books

The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ecclesiastes, from the Bible

Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

Candide, by Voltaire

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, tr. Edward FitzGerald

Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare

The Odyssey, by Homer

The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton

2010 Books

Beowulf, by anonymousSelected Poems, by various English authors The Art of War, by Sun TzuWar and Peace, by Tolstoy
The Tempest, by Shakespeare
Revelation, (from the bible)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich
The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides